ANNOUNCEMENTS
New Work Published/Forthcoming:
Certain Light forthcoming in VERSEWEAVERS 25/2021, the anthology of Oregon Poetry Association. Spring 2022. Visit https://www.oregonpoets.org.
Heart, One Word Muse, and How She Calls It a Window in HOLE IN THE HEAD REVIEW, issue #5, May 2021. Visit https://www.holeintheheadreview.com.
What Sets It Apart and Articulation in Wallowa County CIRCLE OF SEASONS zine, spring 2021 issue, April 2021. Visit https://fishtrap.org/circle-of-seasons/.
Philips Reservoir, Watching the Cranes Come In, in KOSMOS QUARTERLY, Spring Gallery of Poets, April 2021. Visit https://www.kosmosjournal.org/news/kosmos-spring-2021-gallery-of-poets/.
My Father Had a Blue Jay in MOLECULE: A TINY LIT MAG, spring issue #4, March 15, 2021. Visit https://moleculetinylitmag.art.blog.
Raven, Where the Ground is Uneven I Stumble, and Still Life with Peonies forthcoming in AJI MAGAZINE, spring issue 2021. Visit www.ajimagazine.com.
It Rains Sometimes forthcoming in FREE STATE REVIEW, late spring/early summer 2021. Visit https://freestatereview.com.
Tree Frogs at 8:30 pm on a Wednesday Night in Rain, Poem as Simple Survival Gear, and Nearing the Vastness of Things in OPA 2020 PANDEMIC ANTHOLOGY, February 2021. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
Here's Hoping This Finds You Well and Doing The Things You Love Most in AURORAS & BLOSSOMS POETRY JOURNAL (UK) issue 6, January 2021. Available on Amazon. Visit https://abpoetryjournal.com.
Just Love as the Backyard Chickens in AURORAS & BLOSSOMS POARTMO 2020 ANTHOLOGY (UK). November 2020. Available on Amazon. Visit https://abpoetryjournal.com/poartmo-intro/2020.
With Strings in the Background Still Shivering in THE ICE COLONY Season 2 podcast website online, October 2020. Visit https://icecolonypodcast.wixsite.com/website.
Entertaining the Ghost in GHOST STORIES: A COLLECTION OF FICTITIOUS AND TRUE STORIES from SEZ Publishing. Available on Amazon. Visit https://www.sezpublishing.com.
#Stephon Clark in WE ARE ANTIFA, Expressions Against Fascism Racism and Police Violence in the United States and Beyond, an anthology from INTO THE VOID (Canada). Available on Amazon. All proceeds go to Black Lives Matter Canada. Visit https://intothevoidmagazine.com.
Lives of the Seraphim in AMETHYST REVIEW (UK), August 2020. Visit https://amethystmagazine.org.
Parissawampitts in THE STILLWATER REVIEW Volume 10, spring 2020. Visit https://sussex.edu/bjspoetry.
Wail in the fall 2019 issue of VOICECATCHER. Online at www.voicecatcher.org.
Cornflowers, Iris in the winter 2019 (issue 8) of WILLAWAW JOURNAL. Online at www.willawawjournal.com.
Here a Small Rain in VERSEWEAVERS 24/2019, the anthology of Oregon Poetry Association. Print and online. Visit https://www.oregonpoets.org.
What We Make Of It, Art of Dissent, I Can See Rows Of Angels Just Waiting, Noose, Tender Competition Border Crossing in TERRA INCOGNITA from Bob Hill Publishing 2019. Visit https://www.bobhillpublishing.com.
Effigy of a Man in VERSEWEAVERS 23/2018, the anthology of Oregon Poetry Association. Print issue. Visit www.oregonpoets.org.
More Than Halfway There Now in Spring/Summer 2018 print issue of COMMON GROUND REVIEW, literary journal of Western New England University. Visit www.cgreview.org.
A Brighter Light in BARNSTORM JOURNAL, the online literary journal of the University of New Hampshire. Visit http://barnstormjournal.org.
Veil Nebula in the 3rd collection of the series Poetry of the American Southwest, WEAVING THE TERRAIN: 100-WORD SOUTHWESTERN POEMS from Dos Gatos Press. Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Ingram. Visit http://dosgatospress.org/thestore#1.
Instructions for Balance in RAVEN CHRONICLES, Balancing Acts, Volume 25. Print issue, 346 pages. Winter 2017. Available on Amazon. Visit www.ravenchronicles.org.
At the Human Test Site, Greater Good, Migrants Immigrants Welcome, and Water as Much as Anything in MOMENTS BEFORE MIDNIGHT: Oregon Poets Write for Ecological, Social, Political, and Economic Justice, from Bob Hill Publishing 2018. Visit https://www.bobhillpublishing.com.
Wind in Things in the inaugural summer web issue of WILLAWAW JOURNAL, June 2017.
Online at www.willawawjournal.com.
Wind in the May 2017 web issue of HAWAII PACIFIC REVIEW, Literary Magazine of Hawai'i Pacific University. Online at https://hawaiipacificreview.org.
Nearing the Vastness of Things in the print issue of PEREGRINE, the literary journal of Amherst Writers & Artists, Volume XXXI, June 2017. Available on Amazon. Visit
https://amherstwriters.info/peregrine or https://amherstwriters.org.
When It Happened The Last Time in the Summer 2017 print issue of THIRD WEDNESDAY, A Quarterly Journal of Literary & Visual Arts, June 2017. Visit www.thirdwednesday.org.
Finding Center, Grating Carrots, Trekking with Berries in the web issues of HELEN: A LITERARY MAGAZINE. September 23, 2016 (Friday Night Specials) and Fall Issue 2016. Visit https://www.helenlitmag.com. View video poems Finding Center and Trekking with Berries here and on www.YouTube.com.
Removing the Dishes in XANADU Poetry 2016. LIPC. Print issue, ISSN 0146-0463 01, $15. Email: longislandpoetrycollective@gmail.com or US mail: Long Island Poetry Collective, P.O. Box 773, Huntington, NY 11743
At the Edge of Something Immense, Blizzard at Ground Zero, and What Sets It Apart have been added to the audio/print archives of OREGON POETIC VOICES PROJECT, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, February 2017. Visit http://oregonpoeticvoices.org.
Two copies of The Leaf have been added to the Oregon Poetry Collection, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon, April 2018. Visit libweb.uoregon.edu.
Two copies of The Leaf have been added to the Yakima Valley Libraries Local & Regional Author Collection, Yakima Central Library, Yakima, Washington, December 2019. Visit https://www.yvl.org.
Contests/Awards:
Certain Light awarded Second Place in the OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION Spring 2021 Adult Contest, Poet's Choice Category. Judge: John Morrison. www.oregonpoets.org.
Here a Small Rain awarded Third Place in the OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION Fall 2019 Adult Contest, Members Only Category. Judge: Leah Stenson. www.oregonpoets.org.
Nacre, the Unknown awarded Honorable Mention in the 60th Annual NFSPS 2019 Contest LOUISIANA STATE POETRY SOCIETY AWARD. Judge: Sue Brannan Walker. www.nfsps.com.
Articulation awarded Honorable Mention in the 60th Annual NFSPS 2019 Contest THE DIAMOND T AWARD. Judge: Nicholas Trandahl. www.nfsps.com.
Fruit Preserves in Glass Jars awarded Honorable Mention in the OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION Fall 2018 Adult Contest, Themed Harvest Category. Judge: Michael Hanner. www.oregonpoets.org.
Effigy of a Man awarded First Place in the OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION Spring 2017 Adult Contest, Oregon/Pacific Northwest Category. Judge: Charles Goodrich. www.oregonpoets.org.
Will It Delight awarded Honorable Mention in the OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION Spring 2017 Adult Contest, New Poets Category. Judge: Sheila Black. www.oregonpoets.org.
What Sets Its Apart awarded Honorable Mention in the OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION Fall 2016 Adult Contest, Members Only Category. Judge: Kelly Eastlund. www.oregonpoets.org.
Certain Light forthcoming in VERSEWEAVERS 25/2021, the anthology of Oregon Poetry Association. Spring 2022. Visit https://www.oregonpoets.org.
Heart, One Word Muse, and How She Calls It a Window in HOLE IN THE HEAD REVIEW, issue #5, May 2021. Visit https://www.holeintheheadreview.com.
What Sets It Apart and Articulation in Wallowa County CIRCLE OF SEASONS zine, spring 2021 issue, April 2021. Visit https://fishtrap.org/circle-of-seasons/.
Philips Reservoir, Watching the Cranes Come In, in KOSMOS QUARTERLY, Spring Gallery of Poets, April 2021. Visit https://www.kosmosjournal.org/news/kosmos-spring-2021-gallery-of-poets/.
My Father Had a Blue Jay in MOLECULE: A TINY LIT MAG, spring issue #4, March 15, 2021. Visit https://moleculetinylitmag.art.blog.
Raven, Where the Ground is Uneven I Stumble, and Still Life with Peonies forthcoming in AJI MAGAZINE, spring issue 2021. Visit www.ajimagazine.com.
It Rains Sometimes forthcoming in FREE STATE REVIEW, late spring/early summer 2021. Visit https://freestatereview.com.
Tree Frogs at 8:30 pm on a Wednesday Night in Rain, Poem as Simple Survival Gear, and Nearing the Vastness of Things in OPA 2020 PANDEMIC ANTHOLOGY, February 2021. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
Here's Hoping This Finds You Well and Doing The Things You Love Most in AURORAS & BLOSSOMS POETRY JOURNAL (UK) issue 6, January 2021. Available on Amazon. Visit https://abpoetryjournal.com.
Just Love as the Backyard Chickens in AURORAS & BLOSSOMS POARTMO 2020 ANTHOLOGY (UK). November 2020. Available on Amazon. Visit https://abpoetryjournal.com/poartmo-intro/2020.
With Strings in the Background Still Shivering in THE ICE COLONY Season 2 podcast website online, October 2020. Visit https://icecolonypodcast.wixsite.com/website.
Entertaining the Ghost in GHOST STORIES: A COLLECTION OF FICTITIOUS AND TRUE STORIES from SEZ Publishing. Available on Amazon. Visit https://www.sezpublishing.com.
#Stephon Clark in WE ARE ANTIFA, Expressions Against Fascism Racism and Police Violence in the United States and Beyond, an anthology from INTO THE VOID (Canada). Available on Amazon. All proceeds go to Black Lives Matter Canada. Visit https://intothevoidmagazine.com.
Lives of the Seraphim in AMETHYST REVIEW (UK), August 2020. Visit https://amethystmagazine.org.
Parissawampitts in THE STILLWATER REVIEW Volume 10, spring 2020. Visit https://sussex.edu/bjspoetry.
Wail in the fall 2019 issue of VOICECATCHER. Online at www.voicecatcher.org.
Cornflowers, Iris in the winter 2019 (issue 8) of WILLAWAW JOURNAL. Online at www.willawawjournal.com.
Here a Small Rain in VERSEWEAVERS 24/2019, the anthology of Oregon Poetry Association. Print and online. Visit https://www.oregonpoets.org.
What We Make Of It, Art of Dissent, I Can See Rows Of Angels Just Waiting, Noose, Tender Competition Border Crossing in TERRA INCOGNITA from Bob Hill Publishing 2019. Visit https://www.bobhillpublishing.com.
Effigy of a Man in VERSEWEAVERS 23/2018, the anthology of Oregon Poetry Association. Print issue. Visit www.oregonpoets.org.
More Than Halfway There Now in Spring/Summer 2018 print issue of COMMON GROUND REVIEW, literary journal of Western New England University. Visit www.cgreview.org.
A Brighter Light in BARNSTORM JOURNAL, the online literary journal of the University of New Hampshire. Visit http://barnstormjournal.org.
Veil Nebula in the 3rd collection of the series Poetry of the American Southwest, WEAVING THE TERRAIN: 100-WORD SOUTHWESTERN POEMS from Dos Gatos Press. Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Ingram. Visit http://dosgatospress.org/thestore#1.
Instructions for Balance in RAVEN CHRONICLES, Balancing Acts, Volume 25. Print issue, 346 pages. Winter 2017. Available on Amazon. Visit www.ravenchronicles.org.
At the Human Test Site, Greater Good, Migrants Immigrants Welcome, and Water as Much as Anything in MOMENTS BEFORE MIDNIGHT: Oregon Poets Write for Ecological, Social, Political, and Economic Justice, from Bob Hill Publishing 2018. Visit https://www.bobhillpublishing.com.
Wind in Things in the inaugural summer web issue of WILLAWAW JOURNAL, June 2017.
Online at www.willawawjournal.com.
Wind in the May 2017 web issue of HAWAII PACIFIC REVIEW, Literary Magazine of Hawai'i Pacific University. Online at https://hawaiipacificreview.org.
Nearing the Vastness of Things in the print issue of PEREGRINE, the literary journal of Amherst Writers & Artists, Volume XXXI, June 2017. Available on Amazon. Visit
https://amherstwriters.info/peregrine or https://amherstwriters.org.
When It Happened The Last Time in the Summer 2017 print issue of THIRD WEDNESDAY, A Quarterly Journal of Literary & Visual Arts, June 2017. Visit www.thirdwednesday.org.
Finding Center, Grating Carrots, Trekking with Berries in the web issues of HELEN: A LITERARY MAGAZINE. September 23, 2016 (Friday Night Specials) and Fall Issue 2016. Visit https://www.helenlitmag.com. View video poems Finding Center and Trekking with Berries here and on www.YouTube.com.
Removing the Dishes in XANADU Poetry 2016. LIPC. Print issue, ISSN 0146-0463 01, $15. Email: longislandpoetrycollective@gmail.com or US mail: Long Island Poetry Collective, P.O. Box 773, Huntington, NY 11743
At the Edge of Something Immense, Blizzard at Ground Zero, and What Sets It Apart have been added to the audio/print archives of OREGON POETIC VOICES PROJECT, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, February 2017. Visit http://oregonpoeticvoices.org.
Two copies of The Leaf have been added to the Oregon Poetry Collection, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon, April 2018. Visit libweb.uoregon.edu.
Two copies of The Leaf have been added to the Yakima Valley Libraries Local & Regional Author Collection, Yakima Central Library, Yakima, Washington, December 2019. Visit https://www.yvl.org.
Contests/Awards:
Certain Light awarded Second Place in the OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION Spring 2021 Adult Contest, Poet's Choice Category. Judge: John Morrison. www.oregonpoets.org.
Here a Small Rain awarded Third Place in the OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION Fall 2019 Adult Contest, Members Only Category. Judge: Leah Stenson. www.oregonpoets.org.
Nacre, the Unknown awarded Honorable Mention in the 60th Annual NFSPS 2019 Contest LOUISIANA STATE POETRY SOCIETY AWARD. Judge: Sue Brannan Walker. www.nfsps.com.
Articulation awarded Honorable Mention in the 60th Annual NFSPS 2019 Contest THE DIAMOND T AWARD. Judge: Nicholas Trandahl. www.nfsps.com.
Fruit Preserves in Glass Jars awarded Honorable Mention in the OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION Fall 2018 Adult Contest, Themed Harvest Category. Judge: Michael Hanner. www.oregonpoets.org.
Effigy of a Man awarded First Place in the OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION Spring 2017 Adult Contest, Oregon/Pacific Northwest Category. Judge: Charles Goodrich. www.oregonpoets.org.
Will It Delight awarded Honorable Mention in the OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION Spring 2017 Adult Contest, New Poets Category. Judge: Sheila Black. www.oregonpoets.org.
What Sets Its Apart awarded Honorable Mention in the OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION Fall 2016 Adult Contest, Members Only Category. Judge: Kelly Eastlund. www.oregonpoets.org.
"It is the artist's job to make form. Not even to make it, but to allow it. Allow form. And all artists have a different relationship to it, and a different philosophy of it . . . I think that when you are trying to open up a territory--in this case I was working with a desire to open the lyric--you have to be greedy, in that you want more than you can do. And you're always bound to fail."--Brenda Hillman (1951- )